Baren Township riot
| Baren Township Riot (Barin Revolution Uprising) | |||||||||
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| Part of the Xinjiang conflict | |||||||||
.png) Akto, Xinjiang |
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 East Turkestan Islamic Party
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Zeydin Yusup † | Jiang Zeming | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 200-500 Uyghur militants | Hundreds of policemen and soldiers | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 16 killed, 232 Uyghur fighters captured | 7 killed, 18 wounded | ||||||||
The Baren Township Riot was an uprising and armed conflict that took place between Uygher militants and Chinese government forces in April 1990. It is unclear what happened during the armed conflict because reports of the incident vary greatly.
Chinese sources state that the uprising was initiated by 200 Uyghur militants armed with advanced weaponry who attacked Chinese paramilitary forces throughout the township of Baren. These reports indicate that Afghani militia forces may have been directly involved. Reportedly, Afghan-trained Islamists set up loudspeakers in mosques of Baren Township urging the local Uyghur population to "rise up against Chinese oppression and work toward establishing an independent Uyghur Islamic state" while praising Jihad. In response, Chinese government forces crushed the uprising by force over the course of three days.
On April 5, 1990, in Kizilsu's Akto County and in the township of Baren, Zeydin Yusup, the leader of the East Turkistan Islamic Party led a protest with around 200 men. They marched to the local government office and demanded an end to the mass immigration of Han Chinese into Xinjiang. One source states that the protests were the result of 250 forced abortions imposed upon local Uyghur women by the Chinese government. Another source states that the protests were the result of local Uyghurs not being allowed to build a mosque.
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